C++ -> D converter mentioned in AMA

Szymon Gatner noemail at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 23:37:25 PDT 2013


On Friday, 4 October 2013 at 06:33:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-10-04 01:24, Martin Nowak wrote:
>
>> That's it's key feature, any attempt to first come up with a 
>> generic
>> tool would be doomed to fail. Also DMD's code base uses only a 
>> limited
>> subset of C++ which makes it more amenable to automatic 
>> translation.
>
> Having #ifdef inside declarations must be a nightmare for a 
> tool like this. Making that properly work on generic code bases 
> sound impossible to me.

Well, that is nothing Clang can't handle. The subset is what I 
was asking for -  there has to be something that tool handles 
correctly, right?


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